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Does anyone know what species this is?
ancient fig trees, Do Son, heritage tree

ancient fig trees, Do Son, heritage tree

ancient fig trees, Do Son, heritage tree

ancient fig trees, Do Son, heritage tree

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/vietnam-in-photos/109616/photos--hai-phong-ancient-fig-trees-in-ripe-fruit-season.html
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Pouteria campechiana ?
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Does the fruit have big seeds?
It looks somewhat like a loquat (i.e. nespole in Italian).
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Here's another link: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/vietnam-in-photos/98541/community-of-vietnam-s-oldest-trees-recognized-as-national-heritage.html

It does look very similar to Pouteria but has what appears to be a very small ostiole.

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Pino I am assuming the seeds are small and edible.
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Hi,
Are they all the same fruit ?
Last pic, and first pic -look at the leaflets on the fruit-, it looks to me like a kaki . a yellow kaki ?
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"Quả thị", "Gold Apple", or Diospyros decandra.



[qua-thi]


[qua%20thi] 
http://v2.vietkidsvn.com/goc-cua-be-xem/197/qua-thi/the-gioi-phang.html

More here: http://faunaandfloraofvietnam.blogspot.com/2014/07/cay-thi-diospyros-cathayensis.html
I'm just using google translate to read it, to be honest. 
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You were very close jds, it seems there was a translation problem on the part of the authors. Others reports around the same time name the trees as Diospyros decandra. Thanks. 
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I know this tree .
THIS IS NOT A FIG TREE !
This is not related to fig at all 
The fruits are edible and big as a golf ball usually. Sometimes some are as big as an apple   . They do smell good but not tasty at all if not Yuck ! . Nobody want to eat them because the seeds are big and not edible  .More for kids to play and for decoration
There is a fairy story about it
I do not want to have it in my garden because people said that the smell draw bad spirits .     
In my country (Viet Nam ) there are 3 kinds of figs
- One is a religious fig producing small fruits that are not edible . Look like a big seed (Cay Bo De)
- Big fig tree with lots of tiny fruits around the branches (Cay Sung) . Mostly for birds not for us to eat
- Another variety grown mostly in Center Vietnam. (Cay Va). Fruits are flat . People dont eat them ripe (I  never see a ripe one in my life) but blanch them when they are still green to make a salad dish with shrimp + pork + peanut + dressing 
I was born in Hue City (old capital ) 


Viet Nam has no Ficus Carica, until lately imported from the US . 
They call TRAI SUNG MY (American fig) does not matter if the variety comes from Spain, Greece, France , Turkey or wherever .
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Great job Levar you beat me at the buzzer!

Thank you for sharing your experience Mai.
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